St. Landry democrat., 1887-04-09

OpELOUSAs, g. LOUISIANA
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.
THE passengers were all taken off the
stranded steamship Scotia, lying off Fire
Island, N. Y, on the Goth.
Fl. NJ FLoURENs, French Minister of
Foreign Affairs, is reported as having
made some very flattering comments
about Russia, and some very sighting re-
marks about Germany.
THE Montreal Board of Trade has called
an international congress OF boards OF
trade of Canada and the United States to
see if existing national differences can not
be tremendously adjusted.
NEWS comes from Washington that En-
glish syndicates are organizing to build
-four mills in Brazil. 1t is feared at Balti-
more that the success of the scheme will
materially injure Baltimore and st. Louis
milling interests.
PRESIDENT FITZGERALD of the Irish Ma
tional League has issued an appeal to
Americans, showing the condition OF the
Irish people and explaining the newly
proposed coercive measures of the Tory
British Government.
AMEETiNG of fishing vessel owners and
hold ,t cfny
on the goth, and an important letter was
read, intended for President Cleveland's
perusal 1t pertained to matters apropos
of retaliation measures.
THE issue of standard silver dollars
from the minis during the week ended
March 26 was s432, $50; during the CORE
spending period of last year, S439,46. The
shipments of fractional silver coin since
March l amount to S35 zoos.
RICHARD K. Fox has notified Messrs.
Bush and Colt, the owners of the Coronet
and the d luntless, that he will, upon re
ceipt Of their approval, offer a S., 900 cup
for return race between the yachts from
Fastnet, Ireland to Sandy Hook, n. j.
BRIGADIER-GENERAL ORLANDO B. WILL
COX. commanding the Department of the
Missouri. will be placed on the retired list
April Is prox The probabilities are that
Colonel Wesley Merritt, superintendent
of the West Point Military Academy, will
succeed him.
JUNE K KIMNIA, of Aichi Ken, Japan, a
senior medical student at the Michigan
University, and Miss Mary NJ Gallagher,
of East Saginaw, have just been married
%~
take his bride to japan, and Mr.. Gallagher
will let hergo.
BARON De STRIVE, the Russian Min
lister, accompanied by Secretary Bayard,
paid farewell visit to the President on
the Goth prior to sailing for Russia. 1t is
said at the Department of State that the
minister goes to Russia on leave OF ab-
sence to visit his family.
Rev. RAY PALMER, secretary of the
American Congregational Union, died at
Newark, n. j., on the Goth, aged seventy
nine. He was born in Rhode Island and
graduated from Yale college in $780, He
was author of the well-known hymn, my
Faith Looks Up to Thee"
AMONG the warrants issued by the
Treasury Department on the Goth was one
for $50, 900 in favor of the board of man
ayers of the National Home for Disabled
Volunteer Soldiers, to be used in the erec-
ton Of branch home for disabled volun-
teer soldiers west of the Rocky Noun
tains
A WARRANT ordering the surrender Of
DR.. Weir, now in Jail at London, Ont, to
the Michigan authorities, on the charge OF
numbering Mabel Clarke at Oscoda, has
been issued by the Canadian Department
of Justice, and the prisoner will be handed
over as soon as demanded. Weir views
the approaching trip to his old home with
alarm.
THE Secretary of the Treasury has re-
ceived letter from the Alaska CONNER
cial Company complaining that private
parties are taking seals in the water
about Alaska, and asking that ''more
revenue cutters be sent for their protec-
tion.' The letter states that between 49,,
900 and $1,000 skins have been taken dur
ing the year by outside parties.
CHARLES SPEIDEL, the book keeper Of
Werner Il Co., New York, who mis-
appropriated Sl3404, was on the
25th sentenced to five years in
State prison. SpeldeiS steanngs COW
cred period of five years, and
his methods were many and various. He
was an associate of bank teller who re-
Gently fed to Canada with large sum.
THE engrossing clerks of Congress,
careful as they are, occasionally make
errors which cause the accounting Of
fieers no end of trouble. In the Naval
Appropriation bill for the next fiscal
year the following item Is written: Con
tingent marine corps-furniture for
government horses and repairs for same"
OF course, houses are meant, but the ex-
act accounting officers do not know in
what way to get around the HORSE the
word being written SO plainly that no eff
fort of the imagination could transform it
into houses"
CAPTAIN Rush r. WALLACE, Of the navy,
who was stationed at st. Louis for sew
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